On Tuesday morning, ESPN, which has been in a losing battle to keep its subscribers, issued a new set of guidelines,

recognition between sports and politics. ESPN public editor Jim Brady acknowledged the oddity of

releasing those guidelines after a presidential election, but he said, quote, we are living in unique

political times, which explains the revised guidelines for discussion of political and social issues.

According to ESPN Vice President Craig Benson, he said that Trump's election was the essential

factor behind the new guidelines. The first part of the guideline is a recommitment to

objective journalism. Quote, our audiences should be confident. Our original reporting of news

is not influenced by political pressures or personal agendas, unquote. Of course,

that's not going to help much. CNN believes the same thing, and their reporting is slanted

heavily to the left. The left's version of objectivity says that a story, once decided upon,

must not be overtly political. But this ignores selection bias, which decides which

stories are important to cover in the first place. ESPN's heavy focus on Caitlin Jenner, for example, pushes a political agenda through

selection bias as well as political bias. ESPN does make two more important changes to their

policy. First, they say that hard news reporters and editors at the company should not make

any public statements in any forum that would reveal their political biases. That's absurd.

It doesn't solve the problem of political bias in reporting itself. But the most important change is the encouragement

of more political talk from commentators. Quote, outside of hard news reporting, commentary

related to political or social issues, candidates, or office holders, is appropriate on ESPN

platforms consistent with these guidelines. The presentation

should be thoughtful and respectful. We should offer balance or recognize opposing views as

warranted. We should avoid personal attacks and inflammatory rhetoric. In other words, talk

politics so long as its leftist. Mike Ditka lost his job for speaking in favor of Donald Trump

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